Funding chiefs look at employability indicator
Funding chiefs - under pressure from education secretary David Blunkett to produce an indicator of graduate employability - are leaning towards a complex definition of it. "To have any validity,...
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Overhaul of support scheme considered
Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, is consulting on an overhaul of Scotland's unique postgraduate student allowances scheme to make funds available to more...
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Newcastle arrives home-from-home
Six students from Newcastle University have completed a 50,000km overland expedition to Newcastle, Australia. The Newcastle2Newcastle group started its journey last April and travelled to Australia...
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Eye witness
Kamisese Mara, Fiji's president, has sought an injunction to stop the sale of a biography of Major General Sitiveni Rabuka, leader of the 1987 military coups. In Rabuka of Fiji, Rabuka, a former...
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Florence
Students at the University of Florence have complained that their university's continuing failure to pay its debts to commercial suppliers is dragging its name into disrepute. A student union...
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Melbourne
The first Unesco chair in cultural heritage studies in the Asia Pacific region has been created at Deakin University in Melbourne. A new centre will cooperate with universities in three Indochinese...
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Sources for research funding
EUROPEAN COMMISSION - ENVIRONMENT DG Community cooperation against marine pollution The scope of this call for proposals is to identify actions which might be eligible for financial support from DG...
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Distance learning
(Photograph) - Celebrity stargazer Patrick Moore opened the University of Hertfordshire's upgraded observatory at Bayfordbury this week. The university claims it is the UK's best-equipped...
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Rip it up and start again
There is hope that Vladimir Putin will turn around years of decline in Russian education, writes Pieta Monks. Along the road leading to Moscow from the international airport, young, well-dressed,...
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Barred professor to face disciplinary action
A social anthropology professor has been suspended from the University of Natal and banned from campus following bitter disputes with her colleagues and dean. Claims of racism made against Caroline...
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World Bank to initiate change
The race for higher education has proved so hard for countries in sub-Saharan Africa that the World Bank is reviewing its education programmes in the region. The average university enrolment rate is...
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Sweet and sticky
(Photograph) - Sweet and sticky: Wendy Jacob's Squeeze Chaise Longue, which, when inflated by a second person, will gently clasp the reclining art-lover. It faces Marmalade Wall, a 48ft-high work by...
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Ontario opens the door to private universities
Canada moved one step closer last month to establishing a competing system for the country's public universities, when its biggest province paved the way for private universities. Despite protests...
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Scotland leads way with e-workshops
Two pioneering Scottish projects in communications and information technology have linked up to create a ground-breaking international e-workshop that aims to draw up best practice in online tutoring...
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Wheels that can help bag Munros
Personal links between higher education and a therapeutic community centre for people with disabilities have resulted in designs for a wheelchair capable of navigating hill paths. Kenneth Montgomery...